The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe

by Andrew Y. Glikson

Book Overview

With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth. Technologically supreme, they manifest their dreams and nightmares in the real world through science, art, adventures and brutal wars, a paradox symbolized by a candle lighting the dark yet burning away to extinction, as discussed in this book. As these lines are being written, fires are burning on several continents, the Earth's ice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030547361
• ISBN13: 9783030547363
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"